"Alice, I forgot to warn you" the Doctor said, turning to look at her. "There are three things you need to watch out for when traveling with me." He sighed. "Death, destruction and Daleks"

"And what?" Alice asked

The Doctor let out a small smile. "Alien race. My sworn enemy. They want to kill everything that isn't Dalek. Ruthless creatures, with only one emotion: hate. If given the chance, they'll kill me on the spot."

Alice grimaced. "Any particular reason you're telling me this now?"

"Look around you" the Doctor responded.

Alice, a bit confused, did so. At first, she thought they had just landed the TARDIS on an empty street, which wasn't unusual at all. But now she realized that the street wasn't just empty, it was deserted.

It was destroyed.

At least half of the buildings were on fire, and a good portion of the rest were knocked to the ground. There were piles of rubble everywhere, along with piles of destroyed cars. Amongst all of this, there were plenty of dead bodies lying around.

"This," the Doctor said, voice solemn. "This, is the work of Daleks."

"How can you tell?"

"I've seen it enough. Death and destruction everywhere, just because of the Daleks."

Alice turned to look at him. There was a distant look in his eyes. It was almost as if he was looking at this scene, and remembering others just like it from his past.

A past that spans over ten different lifetimes, Alice reminded herself. She laid a hand on the Doctor's arm. She wouldn't want to see this more than once, let alone more than once in a lifetime, and then again the next, and again the next.

Just thinking about it made her shudder.

"I fear we might have come too late" he whispered.

"Don't give up before the fight's even begun!" Alice told him firmly. "Don't be a quitter. Fighting and losing is better than not fighting at all!"

"Is it?" the Doctor asked quietly. "When you fight, you risk the lives of the ones you love."

Alice noticed the deep look of sorrow in his eyes. She could tell that throughout his lifetimes he had lost many, and quite a few because of the Daleks. She let out a sigh. "Are you alright?" she asked him, and he turned to look at her.

"I'm fine" he replied, swallowing. He grinned, though it looked a bit forced. "How would you feel if I asked you to help me try and get rid of this Dalek threat?"

"I would be honored." Alice said, grinning.

"So where are we anyway?" Alice asked as they walked down another empty street.

The Doctor took a moment to consider this question. "If I am correct, then we are in the sky city of Disarray on Earth in the year 2104." He cast a glance over a nearby sign, which said in bright letters.

"Welcome to Disarray!"

"And Daleks attacked?" Alice asked, ignoring another dead body that they passed.

"Easy target, nice and close if they have any ships around," the Doctor said. "Let's just hope they haven't moved on to the rest of the world yet and we can stop them before they kill more than they did here."

Something in the corner of her eye caught Alice's attention, and she turned to look at it. A light in one of the windows of an undestroyed, but still pretty damaged, house blinked one… two… three times. She tugged on the Doctor's shirt.

"I think we should check out over there" she whispered, pointing at the house.

The Doctor gave her an inquiring look, but they headed over to the house anyways.

It was a two story house, and at first seemed deserted, but there was a little noise from above, and they went to investigate it. In one of the rooms there was a woman, lying half under a pile of rubble from the half collapsed ceiling.

"Oh thank goodness you're here!" the woman said. "And that you're not a Dalek. When I heard the door open I was afraid they had finally found me."

"Are you alright?" Alice asked, running over and attempting to move the rubble. The Doctor went and helped, and together they were able to get the fallen ceiling off the woman.

"Yeah," the woman said. "Much better now that the ceiling's off of me. I'm Tabitha Richards. You two are…?"

"Alice." She paused, considering the fact that Tabitha had given her last name. Maybe she should give hers too? Not that people in Hyrule had last names, you didn't need one. The likeliness of two people having the same name was extremely rare. But still… "Alice LiteHart."

The Doctor gave Alice a funny look, wondering where 'LiteHart' came from. "I'm the Doctor" he told Tabitha. "Can you stand?"

"Yeah," Tabitha said, standing up.

"LiteHart?" the Doctor asked Alice quietly. "I thought people in Hyrule didn't have last names."

"We don't," Alice replied. "It's the last name of some girl who showed up in Hyrule a hundred years or so before my time. She was the last person who showed up 'in clothes like that'" She quoted the last part from the first conversation she and the Doctor had.

He shrugged.

"Glad to see you're alright" he said, turning to Tabitha.

"Only thanks to you. Have you seen the ruin outside? The Daleks aren't kiddin' when they say that they'll kill us all. Blimey." Tabitha shook her head sadly. "Disarray has gone from best place to visit to worst place to visit in all of ten minutes."

"That's what Daleks tend to do" the Doctor said. "Nice name of this place, by the way. It's different. I like it."

"Yeah, if only it could have stayed that way." Tabitha let out a sigh.

"Sorry" Alice said.

"Have the Daleks gone on to attack the rest of the planet?" the Doctor asked.

"They're probably still setting up base," Tabitha said. "That's why they destroyed Disarray in the first place. Needed a place to center their plans or something."

"That's good" the Doctor said. After receiving an odd look or two, he quickly added: "That they haven't attacked the planet, I mean. Not so much about the city. Well, a bit about the city, because that means their base is close. And the closer it is, the sooner we can stop them. So where would this base be?"

Tabitha shrugged. "We could always try City Hall. That's where I would go if I needed to start a war with the world. And if not, it's at least got a computer we can use to scan for alien life."

The Doctor grinned. "I like you Tabitha! It's been a while since I've met someone with a little brains and initiative!"

Alice punched him hard in the shoulder. He rubbed it and turned to look at her. "Well, besides you of course" he muttered.

Tabitha hid a laugh. "I guess we'll go to City Hall then" she said, still smiling.